Isaiah 38:17 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

¹⁷ Behold, it was for my peace that I had great bitterness: but thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption; for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁷ Behold, for peace I had great bitterness: But thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption: For thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁷ Behold, it was for my peace that I had intense bitterness; but You have loved back my life from the pit of corruption and nothingness, for You have cast all my sins behind Your back.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁷ Behold, it was for my peace that I had great bitterness: But thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption; For thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.

Common English Bible

¹⁷ Look, he indeed exchanged my bitterness for wholeness. You yourself have spared my whole being from the pit of destruction, because you have cast all my sins behind your back.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁷ Behold, in peace my bitterness is most bitter. But you have rescued my soul, so that it would not perish. You have cast all my sins behind your back.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁷ Behold, in peace is my bitterness most bitter. But thou best delivered my soul that it should not perish: thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.

Isaiah 38:17 Cross References

Job 29:18

Then I said, I shall die in my nest, And I shall multiply my days as the sand:

Job 33:24

Then he is gracious unto him, and saith, Deliver him from going down to the pit, I have found a ransom.

Psalm 10:2

In the pride of the wicked the poor is hotly pursued; Let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.

Psalm 103:12

As far as the east is from the west, So far hath he removed our transgressions from us.

Psalm 103:3

Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; Who healeth all thy diseases;

Psalm 103:4

Who redeemeth thy life from destruction; Who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies:

Psalm 30:3

O LORD, thou hast brought up my soul from Sheol: Thou hast kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.

Psalm 40:2

He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay; And he set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.

Psalm 55:23

But thou, O God, shalt bring them down into the pit of destruction: Bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; But I will trust in thee.

Psalm 85:2

Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of thy people, Thou hast covered all their sin. Selah

Psalm 86:13

For great is thy mercy toward me; And thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest pit.

Isaiah 38:15

What shall I say? he hath both spoken unto me, and himself hath done it: I shall go softly all my years because of the bitterness of my soul.

Isaiah 43:25

I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake; and I will not remember thy sins.

Jeremiah 31:34

and they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin will I remember no more.

Jonah 2:6

I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars closed upon me for ever: yet hast thou brought up my life from the pit, O LORD my God.

Jonah 2:7

When my soul fainted within me, I remembered the LORD: and my prayer came in unto thee, into thine holy temple.